2022 IMSA SportsCar Weekend
The 2022 IMSA SportsCar Weekend was a sports car race sanctioned by the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA). The Race was held at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin on August 7, 2022. The race was the tenth round of the 2022 IMSA SportsCar Championship, and the seventh round of the WeatherTech Sprint Cup.
Background
During this race weekend, IMSA holds their "State of the Series" annual press conference, in which they confirm and announce their future plans for the series they sanction.
After only one entry committed to the WeatherTech Sprint Cup, IMSA announced that the WeatherTech Sprint Cup would be discontinued after the 2022 season ended.[1][2] However, plans were reversed and the WeatherTech Sprint Cup would be reinstated for 2023.[3] The LMP3 class was given a one-year extension to remain in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.
The events start time was moved from 1:40 pm CT to 10:40 am CT after an opportunity to have USA Network broadcast the event live became available.[4]
On August 3, 2022, IMSA released the latest technical bulletin outlining Balance of Performance for the event.[5] In DPi, the Acura ARX-05 received a 10 kilogram weight increase. In GTD Pro and GTD, the Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo and Porsche 911 GT3 R were given weight increases of 20 and 10 kilograms, respectively.
Entries
37 cars took part in the event split across 5 classes. 6 were entered in DPi, 6 in LMP2, 9 in LMP3, 5 in GTD Pro, and 11 in GTD.[6] In LMP2, Tristan Nunez replaced Jonathan Bomarito in the #11 PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports entry. Patrick Kelly and Josh Pierson returned to the #52 PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports entry. Fabio Scherer joined Dennis Andersen in the High Class Racing entry. In LMP3, Malthe Jakobsen replaced Lance Willsey in the Sean Creech Motorsports #33. James French joined Cameron Shields in the Performance Tech Motorsports entry.[7] JDC-Miller MotorSports added a one-off entry featuring Gerry Kraut and Scott Andrews. In GTD, NTE Sport returned after skipping the previous round at Lime Rock. Daniel Juncadella joined Cooper MacNeil in the WeatherTech Racing entry.
Practice
There were two practice sessions preceding the start of the race on Sunday, both on Friday. The first session on Friday morning lasted one hour while the second session on Friday afternoon lasted 75 minutes.[8]
Practice 1
The first practice session took place at 11:05 am CT on Friday and ended with Ricky Taylor topping the charts for WTR - Konica Minolta Acura, with a lap time of 1:09.583.[9]
Pos. | Class | No. | Team | Driver | Time | Gap |
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1 | DPi | 10 | WTR - Konica Minolta Acura | Ricky Taylor | 1:50.539 | _ |
2 | DPi | 02 | Cadillac Racing | Earl Bamber | 1:50.835 | +0.296 |
3 | DPi | 31 | Whelen Engineering Racing | Pipo Derani | 1:51.051 | +0.512 |
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Practice 2
The second and final practice session took place at 3:15 pm CT on Friday and ended with Alex Lynn topping the charts for Cadillac Racing, with a lap time of 1:49.321.[11]
Pos. | Class | No. | Team | Driver | Time | Gap |
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1 | DPi | 02 | Cadillac Racing | Alex Lynn | 1:49.321 | _ |
2 | DPi | 01 | Cadillac Racing | Sébastien Bourdais | 1:49.574 | +0.253 |
3 | DPi | 10 | WTR - Konica Minolta Acura | Filipe Albuquerque | 1:49.640 | +0.319 |
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Qualifying
Filipe Albuquerque claimed overall pole for the event for WTR - Konica Minolta Acura.[13]
Qualifying results
Pole positions in each class are indicated in bold and by ‡.
Pos. | Class | No. | Team | Driver | Time | Gap | Grid |
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1 | DPi | 10 | WTR - Konica Minolta Acura | Filipe Albuquerque | 1:48.915 | - | 1‡ |
2 | DPi | 02 | Cadillac Racing | Alex Lynn | 1:49.097 | +0.182 | 2 |
3 | DPi | 60 | Meyer Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian | Tom Blomqvist | 1:49.841 | +0.926 | 3 |
4 | DPi | 31 | Whelen Engineering Racing | Olivier Pla | 1:50.322 | +1.407 | 4 |
5 | DPi | 5 | JDC-Miller MotorSports | Tristan Vautier | 1:50.369 | +1.454 | 5 |
6 | LMP2 | 11 | PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports | Steven Thomas | 1:54.137 | +5.222 | 7‡ |
7 | LMP2 | 52 | PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports | Patrick Kelly | 1:54.271 | +5.356 | 8 |
8 | LMP2 | 18 | Era Motorsport | Dwight Merriman | 1:54.677 | +5.762 | 9 |
9 | LMP2 | 20 | High Class Racing | Dennis Andersen | 1:54.678 | +5.763 | 10 |
10 | LMP2 | 8 | Tower Motorsport | John Farano | 1:54.809 | +5.894 | 11 |
11 | LMP2 | 81 | DragonSpeed - 10 Star | Henrik Hedman | 1:54.833 | +5.918 | 12 |
12 | LMP3 | 33 | Sean Creech Motorsport | Malthe Jakobsen | 1:59.434 | +10.519 | 13‡ |
13 | LMP3 | 36 | Andretti Autosport | Jarett Andretti | 2:00.163 | +11.248 | 14 |
14 | LMP3 | 74 | Riley Motorsports | Gar Robinson | 2:00.969 | +12.054 | 15 |
15 | LMP3 | 58 | MLT Motorsports | Josh Sarchet | 2:01.083 | +12.168 | 16 |
16 | LMP3 | 38 | Performance Tech Motorsports | Cameron Shields | 2:01.369 | +12.454 | 17 |
17 | LMP3 | 54 | CORE Autosport | Jon Bennett | 2:02.778 | +13.863 | 18 |
18 | LMP3 | 30 | Jr III Motorsports | Ari Balogh | 2:03.907 | +14.992 | 19 |
19 | LMP3 | 90 | JDC-Miller MotorSports | Gerry Kraut | 2:04.307 | +15.392 | 20 |
20 | GTD Pro | 14 | Vasser Sullivan Racing | Jack Hawksworth | 2:05.365 | +16.450 | 22‡ |
21 | GTD Pro | 9 | Pfaff Motorsports | Matt Campbell | 2:05.618 | +16.703 | 23 |
22 | GTD Pro | 3 | Corvette Racing | Antonio García | 2:05.829 | +16.914 | 24 |
23 | LMP3 | 13 | AWA | Orey Fidani | 2:05.942 | +17.027 | 21 |
24 | GTD | 96 | Turner Motorsport | Robby Foley | 2:06.084 | +17.169 | 25‡ |
25 | GTD | 12 | Vasser Sullivan Racing | Frankie Montecalvo | 2:06.224 | +17.309 | 26 |
26 | GTD | 39 | CarBahn with Peregrine Racing | Robert Megennis | 2:06.237 | +17.322 | 27 |
27 | GTD | 32 | Team Korthoff Motorsports | Stevan McAleer | 2:06.275 | +17.360 | 28 |
28 | GTD Pro | 25 | BMW M Team RLL | John Edwards | 2:06.289 | +17.374 | 29 |
29 | GTD | 57 | Winward Racing | Russell Ward | 2:06.297 | +17.382 | 30 |
30 | GTD Pro | 23 | Heart of Racing Team | Alex Riberas | 2:06.517 | +17.602 | 31 |
31 | GTD | 27 | Heart of Racing Team | Roman De Angelis | 2:06.631 | +17.716 | 32 |
32 | GTD | 1 | Paul Miller Racing | Madison Snow | 2:06.674 | +17.759 | 33 |
33 | GTD | 79 | WeatherTech Racing | Cooper MacNeil | 2:06.895 | +18.980 | 34 |
34 | GTD | 16 | Wright Motorsports | Ryan Hardwick | 2:07.999 | +19.084 | 35 |
35 | DPi | 01 | Cadillac Racing | Sébastien Bourdais | No time1 | _ | 6 |
36 | GTD | 42 | NTE Sport/SSR | Jaden Conwright | No time2 | _ | 36 |
37 | GTD | 51 | Rick Ware Racing | Aidan Read | No time3 | _ | 37 |
Sources:[14][15] | |||||||
- 1 The No. 01 Cadillac Racing entry had its two fastest laps deleted as penalty for causing a red flag during its qualifying session.
- 2 The No. 42 NTE Sport/SSR car had all its qualifying times disallowed as per Article 40.2.9 of the Sporting regulations (driver exiting the car during qualifying without permission by the officials).[16]
- 3 The No. 51 Rick Ware Racing car had all its qualifying times disallowed as per Article 40.2.9 of the Sporting regulations (driver exiting the car during qualifying without permission by the officials).[17]
Results
Class winners are denoted in bold and ‡.
Standings after the race
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References
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